10 Scholarships with GIANT Amounts for College Students

Being a college student takes insurmountable time and effort – not to mention good old fashioned hard work. The good news is, people notice.

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Being a college student takes insurmountable time and effort – not to mention good old fashioned hard work. The good news is, people notice.

And it’s the people noticing that creating the very scholarships you’re likely to notice – those with the hefty amounts.

The following ten scholarships fall into that category, with jaw-dropping amounts that’ll knock your socks off, making you feel like all the hard work is just a little more worth the effort:

Note: To help you better organize your scholarship search, please note that the following awards for college students are listed according to deadline, with the earliest deadline appearing at the top of the page. Deadlines that vary will appear at the bottom of the list.

4th GotScholarship $40k Give Away

Deadline: 3/30/14Amount: $40,000Ages: Ages 18 and older

Do you have college dreams? GotChosen wants to help you reach them!

The $40K Give Away Scholarship is easy and free to enter and open to all fields of study.

The winner is selected by a random drawing so there are no GPA, financial need or essay requirements.

Davis-Putter Scholarship

Deadline: 4/01/14Amount: $10,000Ages: College Freshman through Grad Student, 5th Year

The Davis-Putter Scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students who are active in the progressive movement.

Selection is based on involvement in the struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression, building the movement for economic justice, and creating peace through international, anti-imperialist solidarity.

Collegiate Inventors Competition

Deadline: 6/13/14Amount: $15,000Ages: College Freshman through Grad Student, 5th Year

The Collegiate Inventors Competition is open to students who have been enrolled full time in any U.S. or Canadian college or university over the past 12 months.

You must submit an original idea, process or technology that will be judged on originality and inventiveness, as well as on its potential value to society (socially, environmentally, and economically), and on its range or scope of use.

Up to four students may work together as a team. However, only one prize will be awarded per entry.

Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest

Deadline: 10/24/14Amount: $10,000Ages: High School Senior through Grad Student, 5th Year

The Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest is open to 12th grade, undergraduate and graduate students.

To be eligible for this contest, you must write an essay of no fewer than 800 and no more than 1,600 words in length, double-spaced, on one of three topics related to Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged.”

Essays are judged on both style and content.

The winning essay must demonstrate an outstanding knowledge of the book “Atlas Shrugged.”

All information necessary to enter the contest including essay topics is available on the sponsor’s site.

John Kiel Scholarship

Deadline: VariesAmount: $10,000Ages: College Freshman through Grad Student, 5th Year

The John Kiel Scholarship is open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students who are studying optical science and engineering.

Fields of study may include optics, photonics, imaging, optoelectronics and other related disciplines. You must also be a student member of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) to be eligible for this award.